From training to be an electrician to hoping for a career as a UFC champion, Christian Duncan certainly has a promising future.

So far Christian, 21 from Podsmead has been very successful in his cage fighting matches where he has had a straight run of four wins, three total knock out and one tap out through submission.

MMA fighter Christian Duncan at Mark Weirs gym, Gloucester

At the end of this year Christian will qualify as an electrician, and being the sensible guy that he is has decided that this is a good option to back up his future whilst trying to make it into the UFC world.

Christian said: “I hope to make my professional debut before I am 23. There is some work to do, but I know that I need to prove myself and keep going as I have been with the solid wins.

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“I need to continue my training as an apprentice as well as at the gym with Mark my coach and prove that I can do it.”

Christian Duncan training

Christian was lucky enough to travel with a fellow cage fighter to California to see how the guys overseas train to be the best in all things cage fighter.

Christian said: “It is just another world. Some of those guys have been training to cage fight since they were like five years old. It is something else and they just train and work at it all the time. It is all that they know and.”

Having come back from the two week trip, he picked up some valuable insights and skills out there. Now he has implemented what he learnt into his training regime back home in Podsmead.

Christian said: “I learnt a lot about conditioning and one task we were set was to put the equivalent of our body weight into a wheel barrow and push it 200 metres up a really steep hill in about 20 seconds and then have a 10 second break before you have to then do it again.

Christian-Duncan wants to be a professional cage fighter

“I now do this up and down the hill in Tuffley pushing around 90kg. It’s funny and I get people beeping the horn when I am pushing the wheel barrow by the roundabout.”

Friends and family are supportive of what he does even though his mother was a little apprehensive watching him at his first fight.

Christian said: “I originally hoped to make a career in basketball. I was a student at Filton College and we did really well in the team.

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“We won the England under 18’s National League cup, however the coach left and the team stopped. I explored my options but going to Worcester uni to play never really appealed to me.

“My family are in Podsmead and I know that I need a career so that is why I am doing my apprenticeship. I am working hard though and with Mark training me, I know that I want to make professional as a cage fighter.”

Christian initially decided to get into MMA having watched his friend compete. Christian could not quite believe that UFC legend who holds the record for the fastest knock out at the first UFC fight held in the UK in just ten seconds.

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Mark said: “Christian works really hard and has the dedication and determination it takes to make professional. He needs to have these next few solid wins and has already been filmed by the UFC online channel which puts him on the radar.

“I took Christian to California because he has shown that level of commitment to MMA and as part of my recruitments programme he gained a place on the trip.

“It is not easy to get onto, as I have to see that the fighter has that dedication and determination to succeed.

“I anticipate that he will be there having his first professional fight around 2018.”